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| City abattoirs make lives hell as entrails emanate horrible odour | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 4: The abattoirs in the heart of Dogra Hall and Gujjar Nagar localities have made lives of the people, living in their vicinity, hell.
Foul smell continues haunting them all time. The two slaughterhouses, constructed in 1947, are the permanent sources of horrible odour, and have raised health concerns for the families that live in the area.
The problem for those, who live close to these abattoirs, increases every year with the arrival of summers and rainy days.
"We have been suffering through it for decades now. The repulsive smell from the animal entrails overwhelms the locality, making it difficult for us to even breathe at times," the inhabitants said.
Up in arms against the authorities concerned, they said they planned to temporarily shift to other localities till these abattoirs were shifted.
The odours were most intense when goats and sheep were slaughtered for food and their intestines and other internal organs drained.
Sumit Gupta, a resident of Dogra Hall, said the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) had not taken any initiative to shift the abattoir out of the locality despite their repeated representations to it. "The JMC has been so callous towards us," he added.
Sandeep said there was no point in keeping the slaughterhouse in the heart of the locality.
Mohammad Sultan of Gujjar Nagar said the foul smell that emanted from the slaughterhouse in their locality had been troubling them a lot. "It has become nuisance for us," he angrily added.
Shafi said due to the continuous bad odour, they had started developing some health problems.
Surprisingly, the killed animals' blood and internal organs were being drained from the Gujjar Nagar slaughterhouse into the nearby Tawi river.
The proposal to shift these two slaughterhouses to an isolated place at Nagrota was taken over a decade back.
JMC commissioner Mubarak Singh said a piece of land was alloted to the corporation for the construction of abattoirs at Nagrota few years back. The project, however, got delayed following objections by the forest department that the land alloted for the purpose actually belonged to it, he added.
"The matter is in the final stage now and we are waiting for the government clearance in this regard," he informed.
The JMC commissioner said the government had already sanctioned Rs 21 cr for the construction of slaughterhouses at Nagrota. "The first installment has been released," he added.
He said though the land was alloted by the government, the forest department had raised objections while JMC had started fencing it.
After the acquisition of land, it would take at least an year or so for completing the construction of slaughterhouses on it, Singh added.
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